I took a photo with the Pixel that changed my mind about the iPhone
I took a photo with the Pixel that
changed my mind about the iPhone
Mea culpa: I was wrong
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A few moons ago, I wrote some words under the title of
"The Google phone is
almost as good as the iPhone," and while I stand by the content
of those words, I now have to revise my conclusion. On the basis of my extended
experience with Google’s Pixel, I consider it an all-around better phone than
the iPhone 7. The final exhilarating straw that broke the camel’s back was the
photo below, coming straight out of the Pixel XL’s camera, undoctored other
than for a horizon adjustment.
It was the Pixel’s camera that nudged me into using it
as my daily phone over the iPhone 7, but I still believed that the sober advice
was to buy an iPhone for the better app and accessory ecosystem, resale value,
and industrial design. Those things haven’t changed, but my judgment of how far
ahead the Pixel is of any other cameraphone has changed. I couldn’t have taken
that shot with any other phone, of that I’m almost certain.
Without re-reviewing the Pixel, I’ll simply say that
its performance is super fast, the battery of the XL model lasts for a long
time, and Google’s Android notification system is much more to my liking than
Apple’s in iOS. And since I’m already eyebrow-deep in Google’s web services,
it’s a no-brainer. Now excuse me while I go make a Live Case out of this crazy photograph.
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